gc_harvey
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I get all kinds of help info from this site, and other forms as well for that matter, and I figured I'd post a "how to" of my own. Most of you probably already know how to do this, but here it is anyways.
I wanted to tint my taillights, but I also wanted it to be something personalized and different from anyone elses.
Here's what I did. Started out by taping off the reverse lights so I wouldn't black them out with the rest of the light. Then, I picked what I wanted the light to say on it and printed out the stencil that I made on Microsoft Word. After that, I took a glue stick and glued it onto some masking tape that I put on the light. Then I took an X-acto knife and cut out the letters. Next was the tinting. I used VHT spray tint from Advance Auto. Used a few coats of that, then a couple coats of clear coat on top of it to keep it from fading out.
Here's the pics of the process.
It didn't make it near as dark as I wanted to. I thought they were way darker when I was doing it, but it was dark when I was spraying them. I'll have to put some more coats of the tint on it when I get time to do it again. But, here ya have it. My only suggestions are that you pic words with square letters rather than round and do it in the daylight so you know how dark it is. Good luck to anyone who does this!
I wanted to tint my taillights, but I also wanted it to be something personalized and different from anyone elses.
Here's what I did. Started out by taping off the reverse lights so I wouldn't black them out with the rest of the light. Then, I picked what I wanted the light to say on it and printed out the stencil that I made on Microsoft Word. After that, I took a glue stick and glued it onto some masking tape that I put on the light. Then I took an X-acto knife and cut out the letters. Next was the tinting. I used VHT spray tint from Advance Auto. Used a few coats of that, then a couple coats of clear coat on top of it to keep it from fading out.
Here's the pics of the process.
It didn't make it near as dark as I wanted to. I thought they were way darker when I was doing it, but it was dark when I was spraying them. I'll have to put some more coats of the tint on it when I get time to do it again. But, here ya have it. My only suggestions are that you pic words with square letters rather than round and do it in the daylight so you know how dark it is. Good luck to anyone who does this!